IIRC scipy adds strange prefix to atlas library names on FreeBSD (_r things).
I seem to remember struggling with that on my previous FreeBSD attempt.
Not sure though why I did not stumble upon that durng my current attempt.
Just checked and as I used a mixture of 5.9 + #10508 without removing the (reference) blas and lapack spkg, it seems scipy found the libraries built by the blas and lapack spkgs.